A group of right wing organizations that regularly promote climate change denial, Personhood, and every other far right cause is planning to imitate the Center for American Progress and launch their own “Media Matters” style advocacy group: How to fight liberals: Imitate them.

Impressed by the effectiveness of the liberal Center for American Progress, a group of conservative journalists and operatives are preparing to engage in their own sincerest form of flattery — launching an advocacy group with a similar name and mission but very different target.

Part assault on CAP and part homage, the Center for American Freedom’s goal is to wage a well-funded assault on the Obama White House and the liberal domination of partisan online media.

Based in Washington, it will have an annual budget of “several million dollars,” according to its chairman, Michael Goldfarb, and will house a new conservative online news outlet, the Washington Free Beacon, edited by former Weekly Standard writer Matthew Continetti. It will also include a campaign-style war room led by two former chiefs of the Republican National Committee’s vaunted research operation, and a media-monitoring shop that aims to do to MSNBC what Media Matters has done to Fox News.

They’re going to run into a small problem, though. Media Matters and Think Progress have an extremely easy time debunking the constant stream of right wing lies and fake outrages, because the lies are usually incredibly obvious to anyone who isn’t locked in the conservative echo chamber.

But there’s no equivalent craziness coming from the left at this point in US politics; sure, the left has its own problems, and occasionally falsehoods are circulated, but the sheer volume of hatred, lies, and smears coming out of the right wing has no left wing counterpart.

It should be amusing to watch them try, though.